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  • Moving tips from TMO

    With the spring and summer seasons upon us, most Airmen know that means it’s permanent change of station season. There are a lot of steps that must be taken to ensure a successful move, whether it is going to another state or country

  • 28th MXS back shop saves AF time, money

    Back shops provide a technical service that Airmen working the flight line depend on in order to keep aircraft running safely, efficiently and smoothly. They spend countless hours troubleshooting components, ordering equipment and fixing parts.  One such back shop at Ellsworth found a way to cut the

  • Leadership through heritage

    It’s a sludgy, after-lunch Monday afternoon inside a classroom full of young Airmen. Instead of dozing off in the corner from a food coma, each troop is sitting at the edge of their seat listening attentively as a man sporting a Denver Broncos polo, a leather jacket and a handlebar mustache

  • AFGSC command chief visits Ellsworth

    Chief Master Sgt. Calvin Williams, Air Force Global Strike Command command chief, center, meets with Airmen assigned to the 28th Logistics Readiness Squadron during a visit to Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., March 2, 2017. The 28th LRS Airmen showed Williams around the base’s deployment center while

  • “Dirt Boyz” fight frozen flurries

    Every year, the 28th Civil Engineer Squadron activates a team from within their own unit to remove the icy powder that blankets Ellsworth and threatens the B-1 bomber mission.“We’re 24-hour ops,” said Senior Airman Nicholas Murtagh, a heavy equiptment operator assigned to the 28th Civil Engineer

  • Ellsworth launches to Red Flag 17-1

    The 37th Bomb Squadron launched five jets from here Jan. 20, 2017, to take part in Red Flag 17-1 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. Aircrews and pilots from across the world will be working together in the joint exercise, testing their ability in air-to-air and air-to-ground combat from Jan. 23 to Feb.

  • 28th LRS: B-1 bridge to Red Flag 17-1

    Airmen from the 28th Logistic Readiness Squadron and the 28th LRS Travel Management Office have begun operations for Red Flag Exercise 17-1.  In just two days, these Airmen loaded approximately 321k pounds of equipment onto 17 trucks destined for the desert of Nevada Jan. 16 and 17, 2017. “It went

  • Ellsworth chapels provide holiday services

    The chaplains will be conducting services for both the Protestant and Catholic faith communities during the holiday season.The Protestant candlelight and communion service is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. at the Freedom Chapel on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2016. There will be no Protestant service on

  • Honor them: Ellsworth hosts POW/MIA 24 hour run

    Ellsworth Airmen and their families gathered at the Pride Hangar for the base’s second annual 24-hour Prisoner of War/Missing in Action run Dec. 6 to 7.With the help of more than 280 volunteers from 12 different organizations across the base, 1st Lt. Amela Sanders, a deputy flight chief assigned to

  • Four Ellsworth Airmen reach highest enlisted rank

    Wing leadership and chief master sergeants from Ellsworth went around base to congratulate the 28th Bomb Wing’s newest chief master sergeant selects.Ellsworth’s newest chief selects are:Chief Master Sgt. (s) Lucas Beaulieu – 28th Aircraft Maintenance SquadronChief Master Sgt. (s) Anthony Floyd –